Advances in Stochastic Models for Reliablity, Quality and Safety

I: Lifetime Analysis.- 1. The Generalized Linnik Distributions.- 2. Acceptance Regions and Their Application in Lifetime Estimation.- 3. On Statistics in Failure-Repair Models Under Censoring.- 4. Parameter Estimation in Renewal Processes with Imperfect Repair.- 5. Investigation of Convergence Rates in Risk Theory in the Presence of Heavy Tails.- 6. Least Squares and Minimum Distance Estimation in the Three-Parameter Weibull and Fréchet Models with Applications to River Drain Data.- II: Reliability Analysis.- 7. Maximum Likelihood Estimation With Different Sequential k-out-of-n Systems.- 8. Stochastic Models for the Return of Used Devices.- 9. Some Remarks on Dependent Censoring in Complex Systems.- 10. Parameter Estimation in Damage Processes: Dependent Observations of Damage Increments and First Passage Time.- 11. Boundary Crossing Probabilities of Poisson Counting Processes with General Boundaries.- 12. Optimal Sequential Estimation for Markov-Additive Processes.- 13. Some Models Describing Damage Processes and Resulting First Passage Times.- 14. Absorption Probabilities of a Brownian Motion in a Triangular Domain.- III: Network Analysis.- 15. A Simple Algorithm for Calculating Approximately the Reliability of Almost Arbitrary Large Networks.- 16. Reliability Analysis of Flow Networks.- 17. Generalized Gram-Charlier Series A and C Approximation for Nonlinear Mechanical Systems.- 18. A Unified Approach to the Reliability of Recurrent Structures.- IV: Process Control.- 19. Testing for the Existence of a Change-Point in a Specified Time Interval.- 20. On the Integration of Statistical Process Control and Engineering Process Control in Discrete Manufacturing Processes.- 21. Controlling a Process with Three Different States.- 22. CUSUM Schemes and Erlang Distributions.-23. On the Average Delay of Control Schemes.- 24. Tolerance Bounds and Cpk Confidence Bounds Under Batch Effects.